754 nociuidj;. 



£. Head and thorax above black mixed with some ochreous ; 

 abdomen dorsally black with yellow segmental lines. Fore wing 

 with the yellow area replaced by black -brown suffused with purple, 

 with subbasal and antemedial white striae from costa and an oblique 

 white patch from costa to before the reniform on it ; hind wiug 

 deep orange with broad black-brown terminal band with sinuous 

 inner edge. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Accra ( Carter), 4 d" , 1 $ ; Nigeria, Lagos, 

 Ebute Meta (Boa;/), 1 $, Borgu, Yelwa Lake (Micjeod), 2 <$ ; 

 Abyssinia, Atbara (Gerrard), 1 cS ; Br. E. Africa, Ngatana 

 (Gregory), 1 J,Takaunga (Thomas), 1 $ , Kitwi (Crawshay), 1 J, 

 Keres (Betton), 1 $ , Machakos (Crawshay), 3 S , 4 § ; Uganda, 

 Euwenzori ( Wollaston), 1 d ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 

 1 $ ; C. Coloxy, Caffraria ; Madagascar. E.vji. 18-20 millim. 



6132. Tarache crocata. (Plate CLXXII. figs. 15 <$ , 16 $ .) 



Acontia crocata, Guen. Kbct. ii. p. 218 (1852); Hmpsa. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 314. 

 Acontia signifera, Wlk. xii. 796 (1857). 

 Acontia meridional it, Wlk. xxxiii. 785 (1865). 

 Acontia scanda, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 1US. f. 'Si (1871). 



J . Head and thorax deep yellow with a slight olive tinge ; palpi 

 at tips, lateral spots on frons and antennae brownish ; fore tibie and 

 the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen orange dorsally 

 tinged with red-brown. Fore wing deep yellow with a slight 

 olive tinge extending on costa to towards apex and on inner margin 

 to middle, the terminal half red-brown with purplish suffusion on 

 postmedial area except towards costa, the inner edge of the brown 

 area sinuous ; subbasal, two antemedial, medial, and postmedial 

 brown marks on costa with whitish patches between them ; traces 

 of a pale antemedial line excurved to median nervure, then incurved ; 

 reniform defined by black with some yellow in centre and purple in 

 upper and lower parts, small, elliptical ; postmedial line arising 

 from the whitish spot on costa, black, Ainutely waved, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line yellow, almost obsolete towards 

 costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then bent inwards 

 and oblique and somewhat dentate to tornus ; a terminal series of 

 black points slightly defined by yellowish on inner side ; cilia 

 yellowish white with a slight rufous line through them and purplish 

 fuscous patches above middle and at tornus. Hind wing orange, 

 the costal and terminal areas reddish brown, the latter with sinuous 

 inner edge incurved in submedian interspace. 



2 . Head and thorax black-brown tinged with purple and slightly 

 mixed with yellow ; abdomen dorsally black-brown with yellow 

 segmental lines ; fore wing with the yellow area replaced by black- 

 brown suffused with purple, the spots on costa between the dark 

 marks white, the medial spot round; the antemedial line very 

 indistinct, dark. 



